Mark Neikirk

Mark Neikirk is executive director of the Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement at Northern Kentucky University, which connects the campus and community by sponsoring and supporting policy forums, speaker series, nonprofit outreach and voter education programming. Mr. Neikirk is the former managing editor of The Kentucky Post and The Cincinnati Post, where he also was a columnist and a member of the editorial board. He is president of Kids Voting Kentucky, past vice president of the University Press of Kentucky’s Thomas D. Clark Foundation and a board member of Leadership Kentucky. A native of Lexington, he has lived for the past 30 years in Northern Kentucky.